When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity had gathered on the ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

You need binoculars to see Uranus. Point the binoculars toward the Pleiades and put them in the upper-left corner of your binoculars’ view, then Uranus should be in the lower-right corner, forming a ...

While Mars gets all the attention, the real scientific treasure may be orbiting far beyond it. Uranus and Neptune have ...

Uranus, the seventh planet in our solar system, is often the butt of jokes due to its name. But did you know that this wasn't ...

November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though you'll still need a telescope if you hope to spot the elusive planet hiding ...

Uranus appears as a tiny aqua dot against the blackness of space in a region of the sky less than five degrees to the lower right of the Pleiades.

Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...

On November 21, Uranus will appear the brightest this year, as it enters apposition, or opposition. The term "opposition" in astronomy means a planet located at the opposite side of the Earth from the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used ...